Frenchman Paul-Henri Mathieu and his coach Thierry Champion visited the Adelaide Botanical Gardens for some indigenous Australian culture on a day off from competition, at the Next Generation Adelaide International, on Wednesday.

Stephanie Gollan, from the Aboriginal Cultural Institute of Australia, gave Mathieu and Champion a traditional Aboriginal welcome.

Gollan explained the importance of passing on the traditional beliefs of the Kaurna (pronounced Guarna) people, the local indigenous group from the Adelaide region.

“It’s keeping up with culture,” said Gollan. “Memories of traditional people passing on traditional beliefs; highlighting the way the people lived in these times and passing that on through the generations”.

After a quick demonstration from Gollan, both Mathieu and Champion proved adept at throwing a boomerang. Within Aboriginal culture the boomerang can be thrown only by men and was used for two primary purposes – as a weapon for hunting and for scaring off birds.

You can judge Mathieu’s ability with a boomerang by watching the ATP Tennis Show next week.

Mathieu is seeded No. 8 for the Next Generation Adelaide International. The Frenchman won his first round robin match against Jan Hernych 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 on Tuesday and will play Juan Martin Del Potro on Thursday to decide Group 5.

Yes, that's what he says, he lifts 95 kg lying on the back (I don't know the exact word for this?), his personal best.
I'll try to give a very rough translation (but it won't be pretty because I don't have much time).

Here you are, maybe some parts don't make sense because the style of l'Équipe is too difficult to translate for me. It's not a translation, more an "adaptation":

Mathieu back in the gameGood news for the Davis Cup team: after his win over Martin, the French player seems to be on the right path.
His back luck never gives him a break season after season: this time, PHM has caught a serious angina in the middle of the American desert. A lot of baths the day before the match to cool down the fever, a night with a scarf to prevent his ganglions to get worse and a wispy start in the match against Martin could have destroyed again his comeback plans after his very unlucky injury in Melbourne at the beginning of the year. But he made do and mend, progressively turned on the turbo and 3 double faults of Martin gave him the rebreak. From 2-4, he came back to 6-4 5-0 and soon 6-1. The feelings he had in Las Vegas during the last practice sessions were right: Mathieu is on the right path. "After his unlucky injury in Melbourne, Paulo didn’t get discouraged", Champion says. "He immediately asked for exercises to train the upper part of the body. He had one goal in particular: manage to lift the 95 kg bar. He reached his goal the day before we left for Las Vegas. During the tournaments, he now agrees on doing some physical work with Nicolas Perotte. He does his three sessions in the gym every week to develop his muscles. He plans his days, which prevents him from thinking too much. In three months, I mean he’s developped a pretty athletic body. Maybe he was lacking some ‘volume’ in the past…"
Three years after their first collaboration, Champion found back a player who is relentless and doesn’t fear the effort. He also was surprised by Paulo’s new maturity in the way he shares his experiences. "Paulo has changed, he's more communicating, more mature. Everybody in the Lagardère team can see that. He smiles more, he laughs. Even if he remains a serious guy, of course, he is much more relaxed.”A less tormented soul
Used to exasperating defeats or adventurous matches swinging between atrocious and sublime, Mathieu will maybe take advantage of this new wisdom to reach the “high” goals he has set with his coach. Beyond a more muscular body, his usual taste for the hard work, a game trained in a more offensive way in practice (“he rushes to the net on every ball landing in the service box”, Champion says), he could fight his way up in the rankings thanks to a less tormented soul. "Actually, I’ve approached the problem the other way around, explains Champion. A lot of people mean he isn’t able to close out a match. I told him he’s a guy who, despite of some unlucky experiences, always was able to begin anew the next day. And that’s a mental thing he has to rely on."
A new Mathieu ? The French team is waiting for another player for Moscow since the other guys around Gasquet are struggling. But Mathieu doesn’t want to add more pressure for nothing and declines the “saviour” image. Too early. "Of course the Davis Cup is one of the main goals and I adapt myself very quickly to clay, but I’m not thinking of it necessarily." First : Fish. Then he will have a huge clay season since he won’t be able to enter the main draw of Monte-Carlo, Rom and Hamburg with his actual ranking and he will have to play the qualies. Valencia, Casablanca, maybe even the Challenger of Marrakech will be the next stops of a resurrected player who is dreaming, without saying it, of a mastered raid on Roland-Garros…

The title says it all: Mathieu the tragedian
I can't translate the whole article.
The journalist says that the demons are back but Paulo says " You can think whatever you want but I don't. This kind of things happen quite often to other players too. I am not an isolated case. And to reach the 1/8 I won matchpoints, didn't I? Against Gonzo, I was 5-2 down in the tie-break and I beat him, the same against Fish in IW..."

Btw, I didn't see this match and I am glad to have missed it. Good luck in DC, Paulo!